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This is a response to Gareth Jones's critique of Changing Worlds, arguing that while this critique largely misunderstands the approach taken in the book, it does raise important questions about the prospect of war in the modern world. Crucial differences are identified in the use of theological rhetoric as a means of resolving differences about the legitimacy of war in the modern world. Adapted from the source document.

This article attempts to draw the scope and content of contemporary Political Theology, based on a review of the 2013 publication titled, Political Theology: Contemporary challenges and future directions, edited by Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Klaus Tanner and Michael Welker. The book is a collection of contributions which explore the contemporary content and potential future of the subject discipline. 'Political Theology' as critical theology and as a 'theology with its face towards the world' is committed to 'justice, peace and the integrity of creation' and is multifaceted. It represents a discipline with which theologians reflect on political-theological objectives across continents and paradigms. The article concludes with a brief investigation of the implications of insights offered in the book for the South African context (as part of the African continent). ; http://www.hts.org.za ; am2015

The impact of W. James's ideas on Russian religious thought is a well-known fact, however this topic cannot be considered exhausted, since the names and works of the representatives of spiritual and academic science, for whom an in­tellectual meeting with James became the impetus for creating their own con­cepts, still remain in the shadows. We should not forget that this meeting was prepared both by the previous development of academic science with its interest in empirical psychology, and by the close contacts of its representatives with philosophers and psychologists who united around the journal "Questions of Phi­losophy and Psychology", which had been published for many years by the Mos­cow Psychological Society. For representatives of academic theology, the scien­tific recognition of the reality of mystical experience, on the one hand, provided a visible point of support for the preaching of Christianity in the secular world, and on the other hand, it made it necessary to identify the specificity of Christian experience as distinct from the experience of other religions. In addition, for aca­demic theologians, the question of how personal religious experience and Chris­tian action in society relate to each other has become an additional factor of in­terest in mystical problematics. From this point of view, the concepts of mystical experience of such authors as I. Popov and S. Zarin, which have not been consid­ered so far, are of particular interest. In their works, we find a gradual approach to the problematics that was finally legitimized with the release of the Russian translation of "The Varieties of Religious Experience" in 1910.

Concern for the environment has developed and intensified over the last few decades to the point where it now dominates much of our contemporary political landscape and culture. The rise of religious environmentalism in particular adds its own distinctive voice to the debate, for it seeks to trace both the malaise and a potential solution to environmental understanding. In Eco-Theology, Celia Deane-Drummond offers a comprehensive resource book for this burgeoning field of enquiry that highlights and seeks to evaluate the merits or otherwise of contemporary eco-theologies. She introduces the reader to critical debates in eco-theology, tracing trends from around the globe and key theological responses, and encourages reflection and analysis through further reading sections at the end of each chapter and questions for discussion.

Foreword: So what? --Preface --Acknowledgments --Introduction: The what and why of activist theology --1.The darkness of Holy Saturday: rupturing complacency and becoming transformation --2.Turning tables in the temple: disruption --3.The struggle is real --4.The Psalmist sings: the poetry of protest --5.Following the ways of Jesus: enacting radical social change --6.Old wine in new wineskins: reframing theology as activism --7.Economic supremacy: when class ascendency doesn't work in your favor --8.Activist theology's resilience: a year after Charlottesville --Coda: Poetry by Ree Belle --Further reading.